Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 55
When the heavens shake, When the earth cracks open [earthquakes], Man is thrown down, Lying on the ground.
Who acts: heavens, earth · What happens: shake, crack, throw down, lie · To what, where: Man, ground
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 shake | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heavens | det |
| 3 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shake | nsubj |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cracks | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shake | punct |
| 6 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 cracks | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cracks | nsubj |
| 9 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cracks | xcomp |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 earthquakes | punct |
| 12 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 open | obl |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 earthquakes | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thrown | punct |
| 15 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thrown | aux:pass |
| 17 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cracks | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 thrown | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Lying | punct |
| 20 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 thrown | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Lying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cracks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | the heavens | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | crack | present | the earth | open property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw down | present · passive | Man | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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